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this black president is inefficient government. secondly, the theme that we're starting here time and time again is who is deserving and who is not deserving. the vilification of poor people as lady and undeserving. the welfare queen and very specific things come to mind. that's the story that is just playing into those themes. then you read crazy steve king from iowa saying this is a buyout for black people. they're trying to buy off minorities. that's disturbing. >> there's more immediate historical context that the piece missed, which is in 1983 reagan uses brutal cuts. she is literally thrown into the trash can, which creates an evidence gap. people who are trying to put in writing their claim to discrimination. you are looking at a series of cases where it is not clear. it's not always documented. now did that create some loose standards that aren't transparent and accountable? it looks like that might have been the case. but we need to find out the scale of that. the point to to be historically minded and understand the many
this black president is inefficient government. secondly, the theme that we're starting here time and time again is who is deserving and who is not deserving. the vilification of poor people as lady and undeserving. the welfare queen and very specific things come to mind. that's the story that is just playing into those themes. then you read crazy steve king from iowa saying this is a buyout for black people. they're trying to buy off minorities. that's disturbing. >> there's more...
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for state, local and federal government. that we could not sustain the costs. already the costs are going dow down. >> and when it comes to the questions of those most assisted, mothers are at the top of that. talk to me about your mother's day plans and how they are different than recent years. >> sooim so glad he talked about affordable care act on women and especially as we approach mother's day. every year if years i've been in iraq or afghanistan and grandmas serving our troops overseas. also the men for protecting our families. i also visited afghanistan, iraq. but also very poor women. little girls that want to go to school. one that i have told the president about afghanistan and others. those in afghanistan had said yes, we want our girls to go to school. yes, we want to send them to health clinics and go ourselves but it's hard to leave the house if you don't have security. and you cannot have security unless you end corruption. so that's why i'm so proud that our house democratic caucus, 54% women, minorities and lgbt community members. you saw jacki
for state, local and federal government. that we could not sustain the costs. already the costs are going dow down. >> and when it comes to the questions of those most assisted, mothers are at the top of that. talk to me about your mother's day plans and how they are different than recent years. >> sooim so glad he talked about affordable care act on women and especially as we approach mother's day. every year if years i've been in iraq or afghanistan and grandmas serving our troops...
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long, governing louisiana minced no words. the way to alleviate poverty was to take from the top and give to the bottom. he advocated a cap on the wealth of millionaires, proposed an aggressive redistribution, and argued that a home was a basic human rights. long made investments in public infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and roads, and long abhorred massive wealth inequality. in typically fashion, he once used a barb quu metaphor to explain the problems with wealth concentration. >> how many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for nine tenths of the people to eat. the only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of, is to make that man bring back some of the grub he's got for business with. >> how are you going to feed the balance of the people? long was no angel, unrepentantly corrupt, deeply paranoid and personally ambitious to the fault. in the end he was assassinated by a political rival. but along beyond his personal failings and recall the genius of the po
long, governing louisiana minced no words. the way to alleviate poverty was to take from the top and give to the bottom. he advocated a cap on the wealth of millionaires, proposed an aggressive redistribution, and argued that a home was a basic human rights. long made investments in public infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and roads, and long abhorred massive wealth inequality. in typically fashion, he once used a barb quu metaphor to explain the problems with wealth concentration....
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a child cannot use it, the government has an ongoing role. i don't like legalization, because the government has botched this and destroyed communities for 40 years, ruined the lives of people. it has a job to protect as an actually responsible figure in a public health crisis, which is the crisis of addiction. he talked earlier -- >> to affirmatively engage. not just take your hands off of, but to affirmatively engage. you brought up the point about money. let's look at what the drug control strategy money looks like. so this is from white house.gov. they say the administration is doing its part to further the principles both at home and abroad. they have rebalanced the national drug control policy to reflect the complexity of drug use as both a public health and public safety issue. look at this part. dedicating more than $10.5 billion to prevention and treatment compared to $9.6 billion for domestic law enforcement. these are huge numbers. we talk about the sequester and this deficit all the time but we're spending billions. >> that treatm
a child cannot use it, the government has an ongoing role. i don't like legalization, because the government has botched this and destroyed communities for 40 years, ruined the lives of people. it has a job to protect as an actually responsible figure in a public health crisis, which is the crisis of addiction. he talked earlier -- >> to affirmatively engage. not just take your hands off of, but to affirmatively engage. you brought up the point about money. let's look at what the drug...